Five Senate Republicans play the willing suckers for Joe Biden's big infrastructure plan, and Biden continues to frighten everyone with bizarre public performances as Kamala Harris waits in the wings. Ben Shapiro explains why this is another giant pork bill, and why the government should be spending more money on infrastructure than it does on other things, like roads, bridges, and other things that are non-excludable, non-rivalrous goods that private people sometimes can't agree on. He also points out that the vast majority of America's infrastructure is not in serious trouble, and that most of the ones that aren't doing well are in particular states, which means they really should be state costs, not federal costs. And he asks the question: Does that mean that the federal government needs to spend hundreds of billions of dollars right now on this stuff right now, in the middle of a giant inflationary spiral in which we have a shortage of labor and a lack of materials? Of course not! But this has become Joe Biden s big bipartisan push because he can pretend that he s a bipartisan president when in fact he s an extremely partisan president, and so he can get Republicans on board with his plan to spend a bunch of money on something he s supposed to be a bipartisan when he s in fact not even a . And if you re a Republican, then you re not interested in spending money on things that aren t going to get much of it, then nope, nope you don t need to spend any money on anything other than what you can get your hands on, right? Ben explains why you should spend the money you re going to be better off with that you can spend it on something you re better off than you re gonna get back on your phone or tablet or your bank account or your computer or your smart phone or whatever you want or your social media account . He also explains why that s not a good idea. And he also talks about why it s a bad idea and why you shouldn t be interested in paying for it. and why we should all the money that you get back from the tax dollars you get from your phone bill and how you should be getting back from your bill, not from your tax dollars not by paying taxes on it why you re just going to have to pay for it in the first place so you can be a better person than you get it back.
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00:01:44.000First of all, let me just note, America's infrastructure is not in serious trouble.
00:01:48.000The notion that America's infrastructure is just awful and bad in every way, and it's just horrifying, it's not true.
00:01:54.000The vast majority of America's roads and bridges are pretty okay.
00:01:58.000And the vast majority of the ones that are really not doing well are ones that are in particular states, which means they really should be state costs, not federal costs.
00:02:05.000Like the notion that we have much worse infrastructure than anywhere else on earth or that we really need to pour like a trillion dollars, minimum, two trillion dollars into infrastructure is just not correct.
00:02:17.000But this has become sort of the go-to whenever you are a member of government and you just want to blow money into things.
00:02:24.000All you do is you just say infrastructure because this is something people on a basic level understand, right?
00:02:29.000We all sort of understand that the government has a hand in building roads, for example.
00:02:34.000Because the roads connect all sorts of different communities, and so you want the government to shoulder the cost of what is, in effect, a non-excludable, non-rivalrous good.
00:02:48.000We understand that the government helping to foment the placing of broadband, even, is something that benefits a lot of Americans.
00:02:55.000Although, if you just deregulate it, the truth is a lot of these companies can pay for it themselves.
00:02:58.000But we all sort of get the idea that the government should be involved to a certain extent in the infrastructure project because public goods are typically, again, non-excludable, non-rivalrous goods in which private people sometimes can't agree.
00:03:13.000OK, so does that mean that the federal government needs to spend hundreds of billions of dollars right now on this stuff in the middle of a giant inflationary spiral in which we have a shortage of materials and a shortage of labor?
00:03:26.000But this has become Joe Biden's big bipartisan push because he figures that if he can get Republicans on board for infrastructure, then he can pretend that he is a bipartisan president when in fact he's an extremely partisan president.
00:03:37.000Now, they already passed fairly recently a bipartisan bill that was supposed to Send a bunch of money toward, quote-unquote, research and development directed at fighting against China.
00:03:46.000And it passed with wide bipartisan support, even though, again, it is a giant pork bill.
00:04:09.000If you want to break the filibuster, then you're going to have to do it through the budget process because you only have two or maybe three of those per year.
00:04:15.000Waste a bullet on this infrastructure package and let you own it.
00:04:19.000But no, we have to have the quote unquote moderate wing of the Republican Party, including people like Susan Collins and Mitt Romney, who decide that it's important to lend bipartisan cover to Joe Biden.
00:04:34.000According to the New York Times, President Biden struck an infrastructure deal on Thursday with a bipartisan group of senators signing on to their plan to provide about $579 billion in new investments in roads, broadband internet, electric utilities, and other projects in hopes of moving a crucial piece of his economic agenda through Congress.
00:04:51.000Biden's endorsement marks a breakthrough in his efforts to forge an infrastructure compromise.
00:04:56.000It was far from a guarantee the package would be enacted.
00:04:59.000Both the president and top Democrats say the plan, which constitutes a fraction of the $4 trillion economic proposal Biden has put forth, can only move together with a much larger package of spending and tax increases Democrats are planning to try to push through Congress unilaterally over the opposition of Republicans.
00:05:17.000And this is why these Republicans are just adults.
00:05:20.000What he is doing is he's bifurcating this package.
00:05:22.000He's saying, what if we pass this part here with bipartisan support, but I'm only going to sign the bipartisan part if you guys allow me to vote on and sign this giant other package.
00:05:35.000Well, that's the same thing as just putting it all in the same package.
00:06:41.000It's a pretty hard base of support, but it's also a hard level of support on the ceiling.
00:06:46.000So as things start to accrue, as the crime rates continue to remain high, as the economy continues to flounder more than it is soaring, as all of that happens, he's likely to feel some economic pain, some sort of popular pain from that.
00:06:59.000But Republicans are providing him a cover for no appreciable gain.
00:07:08.000I know there are some of my party who discouraged me from seeking an agreement with our Republican colleagues, who said that we should go bigger and go alone.
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00:08:54.000Okay, so Mitt Romney playing the willing dupe as per his usual arrangement.
00:08:58.000Here is the senator from Utah announcing how happy he is with this bipartisan compromise.
00:09:03.000One of the big surprises I had coming to Washington was the sense that while everybody was fighting with each other, you know what, we get along really well.
00:09:27.000So, in other words, we will definitely sign on to this compromise package.
00:09:30.000So long as you also accept this giant pile of manure that we've got right here for you that we're gonna hit you in the face with.
00:09:34.000a second, much larger reconciliation package.
00:09:38.000So in other words, we will definitely sign on to this compromise package, so long as you also accept this giant pile of manure that we've got right here for you that we're gonna hit you in the face with.
00:10:05.000There's not a lot of power behind Joe Biden's punches at this point.
00:10:08.000But, at the same, I mean, here is Joe Biden saying, I support Nancy Pelosi's plan to hold the bipartisan infrastructure bill hostage until the Senate passes a big reconciliation bill.
00:10:18.000Here he is saying that I'm going to, I'm not going to sign this bill alone.
00:10:21.000Now, normally when you say I've reached a compromise with somebody, like if you've ever done a contract negotiation with somebody else, You do the contract negotiation.
00:10:28.000You finally come to some sort of agreement.
00:10:29.000Everybody breaks out the wine and cigars and you're lighting up.
00:10:32.000And then if somebody in the room says, oh yeah, by the way, I'm not signing that unless you also sign this agreement that pays me X dollars.
00:11:29.000Joe Biden is not the president of this particular process.
00:11:32.000Joe Manchin is the president of this particular process.
00:11:34.000So here is Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia, who is signaling, well, I'm not so sure about this whole Nancy Pelosi, let's hold the bill hostage idea.
00:11:43.000To say that one's being held hostage to the other doesn't seem to be fair to me, but they're going to make those decisions.
00:11:48.000But we have to see what's in the other plan before I can say, oh, yes, you vote for this and I'll vote for that.
00:12:02.000Maybe Mitt Romney and Susan Collins, maybe to their credit, maybe they think that they can rely on Joe Manchin to be the man in the gap here.
00:12:09.000And Joe Manchin is going to be like, no, we're going to pass this bipartisan compromise bill on its own.
00:12:13.000And also, I'm not going to kill the filibuster or vote for this particular bill if the reconciliation process is used in order to ram it through.
00:12:21.000Maybe they're counting on Joe Manchin.
00:12:22.000Let me just say, I don't think that that is a particularly wise move.
00:12:24.000Instead, it looks much more like Joe Biden gets 99% of what he wants.
00:12:28.000Plus, he gets this patina of Republican of Republican bipartisan notions to go along with it.
00:12:36.000So Alipundit over at Hot Air writes about this.
00:12:38.000He says, if the GOP had managed to negotiate Biden down to a much less expensive infrastructure bill with no tax hikes, that might be a worthy compromise.
00:12:46.000There are two parts to the Democrats' infrastructure plan.
00:12:48.000One, a bipartisan bill that deals with roads and bridges, and the other, a party-line reconciliation bill that covers quote-unquote human infrastructure like climate change, spending, paid leave, and so on.
00:12:56.000Spending that doesn't end up in the bipartisan bill will likely just be lateraled over to the reconciliation bill, which means Republicans aren't achieving much in terms of spending.
00:13:04.000Essentially, they're pressing on one end of a water balloon, shrinking that end, but causing the other end to swell as the water is displaced.
00:13:10.000The volume of the balloon is the same, whether they're pressing or not, it's purely a matter of distribution.
00:13:14.000And frankly, if that's the case, maybe Republicans should have done the opposite of what they did, arguing to put more money into the True Roads and Bridges infrastructure component and thereby hopefully shrinking the Human Infrastructure Reconciliation Bill.
00:13:26.000That would have been risky because Democrats could pass that human infrastructure bill, irrespective of how big the true infrastructure bill gets.
00:13:32.000But maybe if the latter were bigger, Manchin would get nervous about blowout spending and be more inclined to shrink the other component.
00:13:38.000Now, Biden and Pelosi are both nervous about being double-crossed by Manchin, who's been dogged about trying to compromise with Republicans.
00:13:44.000So today, both the President and Speaker issued an ultimatum.
00:13:46.000Unless and until both bills pass the Senate, they won't even move on the bipartisan bill.
00:13:51.000So they're basically saying to Manchin, we're not even going to vote in the House on the bipartisan bill that Joe Biden just endorsed until you vote using reconciliation processes for these other blowout spending bills.
00:14:04.000So essentially, they're going to hold that Roads and Bridges bill hostage in order to make sure that Manchin does what they want on the giant spending bill.
00:14:14.000Manchin was asked about Pelosi's strategy.
00:14:16.000He says there's going to be a reconciliation bill, we just don't know what size it's going to be.
00:14:20.000Manchin also said he was open to a reconciliation bill that changes the 2017 GOP tax law to raise taxes to pay for new spending programs.
00:14:27.000He said reconciliation is inevitable because of Republican opposition to raising taxes, and he's open to it.
00:14:32.000He said if it's the only strategy we have that's two-track, he says reconciliation is inevitable.
00:14:37.000So maybe he's able to shrink it a little bit, But maybe Manchin, again, this just shows you that if Joe Manchin caucuses with the Democrats, he's still a Democrat.
00:14:49.000And so you can count on Joe Manchin for one thing and one thing only, and that is not ending the filibuster for non-reconciliation bills.
00:14:54.000But for reconciliation bills, a reconciliation bill is defined as a budget bill, basically.
00:14:59.000For any budget bill, which is spending and taxation bill, he will just go along with the Democrats.
00:15:03.000Which means Republicans got nothing here.
00:15:06.000It means that, depending on which way Manchin goes, Mitt Romney and Susan Collins and the rest of these jokers got played.
00:15:23.000OK, so it's just it's an amazing failure by these Republicans like Mitt Romney.
00:15:28.000Again, there is a an aspect of conservatism that is institutionalist in structure, right?
00:15:34.000The sort of the John Roberts constitutionalism in which John Roberts suggests that the key role that he plays on the Supreme Court to take an example of this sort of conservatism is to uphold the It doesn't matter if I have to rewrite Obamacare in order to make it comply with the Constitution.
00:15:50.000It doesn't matter if I have to rewrite Obamacare in order to make it comply with the Constitution.
00:15:54.000It doesn't matter if I am constantly forging 9-0 unanimous votes that are far smaller in scope in protecting American rights than a 6-3 majority decision would be.
00:16:03.000John Roberts has upheld the institution.
00:16:05.000And you get the same thing here from Mitt Romney.
00:16:07.000Now, there is something to upholding the institution, right?
00:16:10.000You want to uphold the institution of the filibuster even when you're in control.
00:16:12.000This is what Mitch McConnell was saying.
00:16:14.000He was saying, if you get rid of the filibuster here, then when Democrats take control, you're really going to regret it.
00:16:20.000But what Mitt Romney is doing is beyond that.
00:16:22.000What Romney and Collins are doing is they're saying, it is so important that the American people think that we can forge compromise here, that I will provide the lie that compromise was actually had here, even when it wasn't, so that you think, the American people, that the Senate can work.
00:16:38.000When it comes to actual popular policy, the Senate does actually vote overwhelmingly.
00:16:43.000You'll remember that just last week, the Senate voted 100-0 to make Juneteenth a national holiday, for example.
00:16:48.000You'll remember that, again, there was a bipartisan bill that went forward to spend some hundreds of billions of dollars on research and development, supposedly.
00:16:55.000They're basically going to be just subsidies to particular friends of the government to fight Chinese innovation.
00:17:02.000So it's not that bipartisanship is dead.
00:17:29.000There's no reason why Mitt Romney feels he should have to forge compromise in this way.
00:17:33.000But for some reason, again, this goes to Mitt Romney's perception of himself.
00:17:36.000And so much of politics really is how politicians perceive themselves.
00:17:40.000Mitt Romney perceives himself as a deal maker and a person who brings people together in the same way that John McCain used to perceive himself this way, right?
00:17:48.000You wanna be part of that gang of eight or that gang of 10 or that gang of four, whatever the gang is, because this means you're a very important person, a person who gets things done.
00:17:56.000What if the goal of checks and balances is to prevent things from getting done, however?
00:18:00.000What if we need to completely shift our mindset with regard to why are we bothering to get things done if they are bad things?
00:18:06.000And let's face it, in the end, what Joe Biden is relying on to do what he wants to do here is the basic fist inside the velvet glove, which is the possibility of just killing the filibuster altogether, right?
00:18:21.000Joe Biden is figuring that at a certain point, Manchin is going to cave one way or another, or Sinema is going to cave one way or another.
00:18:27.000Or maybe, if he can just castigate Republicans enough, they'll kill the filibuster.
00:18:30.000Bill Clinton I mean, it's amazing how far the Democratic Party has moved.
00:18:33.000Bill Clinton's presidency was successful entirely because of bipartisan compromise.
00:18:38.000Bill Clinton's first couple of years, he had a Democratic Congress, and he was an awful failure.
00:18:48.000And by 1994, Republicans had won back Congress for the first time in like 30 years.
00:18:52.000So Bill Clinton's rest of his presidency was negotiating with Newt Gingrich in order to do things for the American people, like welfare reform, like a 1994 crime bill that actually were effective on behalf of the American people.
00:19:06.000And now you have Bill Clinton and he has revised his opinion.
00:19:12.000I understand the president's reluctant to get rid of it altogether.
00:19:16.000And I sympathize with Joe Manchin who's trying to, you know, stand up for the right thing and represent people that voted more than two to one for President Trump.
00:19:25.000But I think when it comes to preserving democracy, you know, I would suspend the filibuster because I think it's essential.
00:19:32.000I don't think that we should be in the business of going backwards and trying to drive down voting rights.
00:20:08.000He is, in fact, a very weak president.
00:20:10.000What he is capable of getting done under these circumstances, it's very limited.
00:20:15.000Because, let's face it, Joe Manchin is not upholding the filibuster because he's a nice guy.
00:20:19.000Joe Manchin is upholding the filibuster because he is a blue state senator from a red state.
00:20:24.000Because he's a Democrat in a state that Donald Trump won by, I believe, 39 points in the last election cycle.
00:20:29.000Kyrsten Sinema is not, I think, congenitally predisposed to loving the filibuster.
00:20:34.000She just recognizes that she's got John McCain's old seat, basically, in Arizona, a very purple state, with a red governor and a red legislature.
00:20:43.000And so she, I think properly and understandably, knows where her bread is buttered.
00:20:49.000So with that said, Joe Biden can't get a lot done here.
00:20:53.000So why are Republicans helping him to get things done here?
00:20:59.000If he's going to do it anyway, make him own it.
00:21:01.000I don't understand for the life of me what Mitt Romney and Susan Collins think that the Republican Party, broadly speaking, gets out of it.
00:21:07.000Now, the reality is that this because of the Democrats trying to link these two things, that they're only going to vote on a bipartisan deal.
00:21:15.000If they also get to ram through this reconciliation bill?
00:21:17.000Because of that, I think that this thing will probably get filibustered anyway.
00:21:20.000Remember, you need 60 votes to overcome the filibuster.
00:21:23.000You need 10 Republicans to kill the filibuster.
00:21:25.000Where are they going to get those other 5 Republicans who go forward with the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure plan if they're simultaneously linking it with a piece of legislation that they're going to ram through in a 50-50 vote with one extra ding from Kamala Harris, who is sitting as the presiding officer in the Senate?
00:21:44.000So I think all the talk about bipartisanship is a little bit too early.
00:21:48.000I don't think this is going to actually go to a bipartisan vote on this particular bill.
00:21:52.000And I and you watch the media will then call the Republicans obstructionist.
00:21:56.000They'll then say it's the Republicans' fault.
00:21:59.000They give Joe Biden the veneer of bipartisanship, and then they themselves are called partisan when they obstruct the bill because it turns out that Joe Biden has already linked it to another bill that is in fact not bipartisan.
00:22:10.000That is the stupid, play stupid games, win stupid prizes for the Republican Party.
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00:23:56.000So they sort of got it, but you're not gonna see it repeated. Okay, so this is a live press conference yesterday at the White House and And here's the president of the United States Being like this is so weird. He's just a weird old dude, man. I mean like this is alright. Here we go They're gonna be getting checks in the mail that are consequential this week
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00:24:37.000Um, okay, put aside what he's saying, which is insanely stupid.
00:24:42.000I mean, what he's actually saying there is that if you want people to come back to work, you have to pay them more because the government is paying them to stay home and somehow this is good for the economy.
00:24:51.000And then he says inflation is not the predictable result, which is stupid.
00:25:38.000So he finishes a press conference yesterday.
00:25:40.000And there's this horrifying situation in Surfside, Florida.
00:25:44.000And our prayers go out to the folks over in Surfside.
00:25:48.000There's been this horrifying condo collapse in Surfside, like half the building collapsed.
00:25:55.000It appears likely that there were structural defects in the building that were revealed over time as maybe the building was sinking into the ground because it was built on the beach.
00:26:07.000And by the way, just gonna put this out there for folks who do want to give.
00:26:11.000There is a website that has been set up by one of the big synagogues over there where you can give money to help out the families of the people who are suffering.
00:26:25.000That's a long web address, but they're trying to raise like a million bucks for the people who are suffering from that tragedy.
00:26:42.000In any case, Joe Biden finishes his press conference yesterday and he just starts wandering out of the room and Kamala Harris has to remind him that this thing happened and he's just like, Oh my gosh, it's so awkward.
00:27:31.000There's a lot of ancillary pieces of this legislation I strongly support.
00:27:36.000I strongly support the idea that there's no, if I had my way, there'd be no private contributions to see who gets elected, how much money you raise.
00:27:47.000No private contributions to political candidates.
00:27:50.000Okay, what he's talking about there is the supposed voting rights bill that sets up public funding for candidates.
00:27:55.000So your taxpayer dollars should go to Joe Biden to run for office.
00:30:06.000And also, I fail to understand how it is good logic that because Between 1932 and 1972, there were Tuskegee experiments, racist experiments that were conducted that allowed essentially the syphilis to grow in black people to see how it was going to affect their minds.
00:30:25.000I failed to see how an experiment that was first conducted in 1932 is a good excuse for not getting a vaccine in 2021.
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00:32:33.000Meanwhile, you got Kamala Harris waiting in the wings, which is not... If you thought that it was creepy when Joe Biden was whispering at you just a few moments ago, how creepy is it what was going on in the background of this particular bipartisan photo?
00:32:45.000So, you got Joe Biden, you got Kyrsten Sinema.
00:32:48.000By the way, I just have to compliment Kyrsten Sinema's sense of style.
00:32:52.000Like, it actually is kind of fabulous.
00:32:54.000I am not a fashion reviewer, although I will say that I found it very odd and still find it odd that Nancy Pelosi has a face mask to match every outfit.
00:33:07.000Kyrsten Sinema shows up wearing this red thing, and it's cool, and you've got this entire bipartisan group of senators, and then lurking in the background, There's something happening behind Mitt Romney's shoulder.
00:33:19.000There's a white pillar, and then behind that pillar, in front of the White House, someone is waiting.
00:33:52.000By the way, if you're Kamala Harris, you gotta be pissed at this point, right?
00:33:54.000Because Joe Biden has basically put you in charge of all the most popular parts of his agenda, unpopular parts of his agenda.
00:34:00.000So Joe Biden's like, you know, Kamala, why don't you like do the border thing?
00:34:05.000And we won't change any of our policies, but you're in charge now.
00:34:10.000And then she's like, And she doesn't go down to, by the way, she is headed down to the border.
00:34:17.000All it took was Donald Trump saying he was headed to the border, and then she's rushing down to the border as fast as her feet can carry her.
00:34:48.000Without Trump, their policies become the issue in 2022 and 2024.
00:34:51.000So we're going to continue to focus in on January 6th.
00:34:56.000Now, no one on the right was harsher on January 6th than I was.
00:35:00.000I thought it was a bunch of idiots and droogs for not only no reason, for counterproductive purposes, assaulting The center of our legislative branch attempting to do active physical harm to legislators.
00:35:13.000I said all those people should be arrested and they should be prosecuted for having violated the law.
00:35:18.000If you committed a crime, you get arrested, you get prosecuted.
00:35:19.000I hold that standard whether you are rioting and looting in Kenosha, Wisconsin or whether you're doing it in the halls of Congress.
00:35:25.000But the notion that this is some sort of cataclysmic occurrence that requires a much deeper look at the heart of America.
00:35:37.000Nancy Pelosi, however, is launching a select committee.
00:35:40.000The reason that she's announcing the select committee is because what she hopes is that when you get to your 2022 ballot, you think of January 6th as opposed to all the crappy policy that the Democrats are pushing.
00:35:49.000They don't want you to be thinking about critical race theory.
00:35:51.000They don't want you to be thinking about their subjugation of the police and destruction of law and order in our cities.
00:35:56.000And they don't want you to be thinking about inflation.
00:35:58.000They don't want you to be thinking about slow job growth or your inability to hire workers or higher prices at the supermarket.
00:36:03.000They don't want you to be thinking about any of that.
00:36:04.000They want you to be thinking solely and completely about Donald Trump.
00:36:08.000Because Donald Trump is the worst person ever to walk the earth.
00:36:10.000So here is Nancy Pelosi announcing a select committee.
00:36:21.000Because it turns out there are lots of people all over the United States who in small groups believe unbelievably stupid and dangerous things.
00:36:30.000In fact, it would be pretty difficult to find a single stupid Idiotic, insane cause for which you could not rally a couple of thousand people in the United States.
00:36:40.000With the internet, not hard for those people to get together.
00:36:43.000But the real goal here for the Democrats, of course, is to suggest that January 6th was a natural outgrowth of conservatism and right-wing thought.
00:36:50.000Now, there is a certain irony to the fact that the Democrats, who full-scale embrace Ibram X. Kendi, and full-scale embrace Robin DiAngelo, and full-scale embrace Kimberly Crenshaw, they say that critical race theory has nothing to do with the indoctrination into wokeness of your nation's schoolchildren.
00:37:44.000It is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure that an attack of that kind cannot happen and that we root out the causes of it all.
00:37:56.000Okay, you know what one of the causes was?
00:37:58.000The fact that the Capitol Police weren't properly staffed up.
00:38:00.000Wait, who's in charge of the Capitol Police again?
00:38:04.000So in just one second, we'll get to what Nancy Pelosi's actually doing with the Select Committee, of course, which is to try and connect January 6th with a broader ideology.
00:38:12.000Because again, Democrats have to misdirect.
00:38:14.000It's all sleight of hand at this point.
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00:42:12.000Meanwhile, look, Nancy Pelosi, when she's pushing this Senate select, this House select committee rather on January 6th, we know what it's really all about, right?
00:42:24.000It's not about getting to the bottom of the security failures.
00:42:26.000It's not about actually trying to fix the problem.
00:42:28.000What it really is about is trying to pin the droogs of January 6th on everybody.
00:42:34.000And so we just end up with mad libs, like left-wing mad libs.
00:42:38.000So here is Nancy Pelosi trying to explain the origins of January 6th with reference to her favorite mush words.
00:42:48.000One is about the root causes of it, the white supremacy, the anti-Semitism, the Islamophobia, all the rest of it that was so evident when you see a sweatshirt on one of the people saying, camp Auschwitz.
00:43:06.000The other is the security of the Capitol and what it means to be ready for such an insurrection.
00:43:15.000It's about white supremacy and anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
00:43:19.000There were people in the building who were anti-Semitic.
00:43:21.000She mentions one guy who's a white supremacist.
00:43:23.000I'm sure there were white supremacists in the building.
00:43:25.000January 6th, generally speaking, As far as I'm aware, has not been explicitly linked to, for example, Islamophobia.
00:43:33.000Last I checked, what January 6th was about was people who thought that the election was fraudulent and wanted to stop the certification of the election.
00:43:41.000I'm pretty sure if you're looking for like the approximate cause, it is that, like ideologically.
00:43:56.000You see, all of their opponents are the worst people in the world.
00:43:58.000It is not just that the people who invaded the Capitol building are bad people or did a bad thing.
00:44:03.000It is that everybody who's associated with a political cause that Nancy Pelosi doesn't like is in league with those people.
00:44:10.000And you can see Democrats do this all the time.
00:44:12.000So the most predictable move in American politics really was, and I predicted it openly on November 6th and on January 20th, I said, as soon as it becomes clear that there's another Republican in the Republican Party who may win the 2024 nomination, if Trump doesn't run or even if Trump does run and he just doesn't have the steam that he had in 2020 and many Republicans decide, you know, like the guy, but we want to move on.
00:44:35.000As soon as that happens, as soon as there appears to be any sort of air appearance of the Republican nomination, that person will become worse than Hitler, i.e., worse than Trump.
00:45:35.000They hate Trump because they hate you.
00:45:37.000And you can replace Trump with another figure and they will hate you just as much.
00:45:41.000All they will do is they will start downplaying Trump in order to play up the idea that whoever succeeds inside the Republican Party is worse than Trump.
00:46:16.000But I think the person who easily takes the cake is Samantha Bee, who's not even trying at this point.
00:46:20.000There's a phenomenon in the comedy world that is now known as claptor, where instead of people laughing at your supposed jokes, they just clap because they agree with you, which normally we would just call like a political speech.
00:46:30.000How Samantha Bee's writers get paid to write for her is beyond me.
00:46:37.000There are certain things in life I just don't understand.
00:46:39.000How Samantha Bee is a fully employed human, and people find her entertaining apparently, like a very small subset of the population, is beyond me.
00:46:46.000So she did an entire hit on Ron DeSantis.
00:46:49.000And of course, the premise of the hit was, wait for it, wait for it, worse than Trump.
00:46:54.000That wasn't the most predictable move ever.
00:47:21.000He's even worse than Trump, according to Samantha Bee.
00:47:24.000DeSantis was also one of the first governors to attempt removing critical race theory from his state's education system.
00:47:31.000And last month, he signed a restrictive voting rights law that racially discriminates against Black and Latino voters.
00:47:37.000Of course DeSantis is doing whatever he can to pass racist laws—he's racist!
00:47:41.000He's accepted money from a rich tapestry of racists, refused to return their donations, and after President Biden dared to talk about systemic racism, DeSantis couldn't wait to share his own nuanced opinion.
00:47:53.000This proposition that we are a systemically racist country.
00:48:57.000It's a bold move, Cotton, and I very much look forward to seeing Democrats reap the whirlwind so long as Republicans stand out of the way and let them do it.
00:49:04.000Alrighty, folks, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
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